Docker is revolutionizing the way people think about applications and deployments. It provides a simple way to run and distribute Linux containers for a variety of use cases, from lightweight virtual machines to complex distributed micro-services architectures.

Containers allow to run services in isolation with a minimum performance penalty, increased speed, easier configuration and less complexity, making it ideal for continuous integration and continuous delivery based workloads. But migrating an existing application to a distributed micro-services architecture is no easy task, requiring a shift in the software development, networking and storage to accommodate the new architecture.

We will provide insight on our experience creating a Jenkins platform based on distributed Docker containers running on Apache Mesos and comparing other solutions as Kubernetes or Docker Swarm, applicable for all types of applications, but specially Java and JVM based nones.

Docker is revolutionizing the way people think about applications and deployments. Apache Mesos enables fault-tolerant distributed systems and allows managing a cluster of Linux servers as a single system, running Docker containers across multiple hosts, offering elasticity and machine abstractions.

By using Apache Mesos and Marathon, an Apache Mesos framework for long-running applications, the Jenkins Continuous Integration environment can be run at scale, dynamically.

Jenkins masters can be run on Docker containers distributed on Marathon, while the Jenkins Mesos and Docker plugins allow slaves and jobs to run in containers distributed across the multiple hosts, and isolating job execution.

Join Carlos Sanchez for a study in running Jenkins at scale. He’ll share his experience using Docker and Apache Mesos to create one of the biggest Jenkins clusters to date. You’ll drill down into the details with Carlos to get a better understanding of how Apache Mesos works. Together you’ll explore the challenges of running containerized and distributed applications (particularly JVM ones) through a real-world use case. By the end of this course, you’ll have a solid grounding in using these popular open source technologies for continuous integration and continuous delivery at scale.

What you’ll learn—and how you can apply it

By the end of this live, online course, you’ll understand:

How Apache Mesos works and how Docker containers are executed in a Mesos cluster

How Jenkins can use a Mesos cluster as a provider to provision build agents on demand

How Java applications behave inside a Docker container

And you’ll be able to:

Create a Apache Mesos cluster for local development using Docker Compose

Create Jenkins jobs that are executed dynamically based on demand

Use Jenkins Pipelines to execute jobs in one or more Docker containers

This course is for you because…

You’re a build/release engineer or are interested in deploying Docker at scale